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LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 10: Actress Olga Kurylenko, a 'Bond Girl' from the James Bond movie, 'Quantum of Solace,' appears at the Panasonic booth as MGM Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment unveil 'Bond 50,' a box-set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray Disc in celebration of the James Bond franchise's 50th anniversary at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 13 and is expected to feature 2,700 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 140,000 attendees. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

English: Pond in Holly Hill Woodland Park One of several in this woodland park. Water is looking a bit scummy because the maintenance man has just been round with a strimmer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

New Orleans: "1st Procession of the Krewe of Dead Pelicans". Satirical second line parade in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. Effigy corpse carried in the parade representing the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Night time astronaut image of the northern Gulf coast. Mobile Bay and the city of Mobile (top left, beneath one of the solar panels of a docked Russian Soyuz spacecraft), New Orleans and Houston are visible as the view moves south-eastward. The Interstate Highway 20 cities of Jackson, Shreveport, Dallas and Fort Worth are also visible further inland. The view extends northward (left) to Little Rock and Oklahoma City. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

( That 2006 initiative giving tax relief on resource depletion using deepwater extraction is still in play. If anybody was serious about discouraging drilling past the limits of technology...it wouldn't be. )

‎"The
federal government is failing to learn from one of the most
environmentally and economically destructive incidents in US history,"
said David Pettit, a senior attorney for the NRDC. "Fresh oil from the
Macondo well continues to wash ashore ... and the government is being
negligent by issuing leases to drill now and drill deeper without
ensuring all necessary precautions." Pettit told Truthout that, despite
reforms to deep-water drilling regulation made since the BP spill,
regulators continue to issue drilling permits without the detailed
analysis necessary to understand the potential environmental impacts on
already damaged ecosystems. On his blog, Pettit explains that the design
flaw in Cameron-style blowout preventers like those that led to the
Deepwater Horizon disaster "still exists today."

In
the UK they are now charging and convicting people for offensive, but
relatively innocuous 'hate speech'. The principle of Free Speech that
has been the centre point of of Western Democracy is now dead on the
basis that it is now illegal to merely offend someone. The loathsome
idiots in question need to be shunned and ridiculed, not jailed. Ask
yourself where it will stop?

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This
is getting ridiculous. Following the man jailed for tweeting something
disgusting about Fabrice Muamba, then the boy jailed for putting
something disgusting on Facebook about April Jones (and the man almost
jailed for joking about blowing up Robin Hood Airport), now a man has
been jailed for wearing a T-shirt with a disgusting joke [...]

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MIDWAY is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy.

"Near the heart of the Pacific Ocean, Midway Island is one of the most
remote places on Earth, and the iconic site of a world-changing naval
battle. Today Midway is inhabited by a million Laysan albatrosses--
magnificent and beautiful seabirds who range over the entire Pacific
from their home base on the island. Midway is a multi-layered
kaleidoscope of natural wonder and human history, and it also serves as a
powerful lens into a shocking environmental tragedy: tens of thousands
of albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic
from the Pacific Garbage Patch.

"Returning to the island over
several years, our team has witnessed and filmed cycles of birth, life,
and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our time. With
internationally acclaimed artist Chris Jordan as our guide, our film
will walk directly int

o the fire of
horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy—and our own
complicity—head on. And in this process, we discover a unexpected
doorway to a deeply felt experience of hope, beauty and reverence for
the mystery and miracle of our world. Stepping far outside the stylistic
templates of traditional environmental or documentary films, MIDWAY
will take viewers on a lyrical guided tour into the depths of their own
spirits, delivering a profound message of renewal and love that is
already reaching an audience of millions of people around the globe."

Anyone
catching fish such as this triple tail, Scott Porter has been so kind
to offer his services to do a DNA analysis. He is in the Houma area and
will travel to pick up the fish. Please contact me or Scott asap. The
fish must be kept cold, not frozen.

Good idea.

i
live on earth at present, and i don’t know what I am. i know that i am
not a category. i am not a thing — a noun. i seem to be a verb, an
evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe. ~ buckminster fuller

So if you beat your citizens for a year, you get a Nobel Peace prize?

F*ck This Sh*t !

( Meh. Isn't it on a par with Obama's award...before he invaded Afghanistan ? LOL That one involved illegality for a sitting President to accept such from a foreign state. http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/show.dml/2660434

I guess I should be grateful Obama isn't plugging spurious concerns
about Iran ( while Israel's atrocities in Palestine show no sign of
drying up U.S. gifts of military materiel ), an act sure to further
agitate Russia, which has actual ( {unlike say, Iran } not theoretically
possible in 10 years if they're lying about their interest; despite the
NIE saying they have no nuclear weapons program ) ICBMs with MIRVs. Fixed that)

It is not worth the risk.

Welcome
to Chernobyl, 26 years after the nuclear disaster. Nuclear power is so
"safe" that the soil is STILL highly contaminated 26 years later. Do
you want to...

Stuart
Smith, Attorney At Law: Let’s cut through the bureaucrat-ese and
ponder the major significance of this news. It means that after
two-and-a-half years, after spending some $14 billion on cleaning up the
Gulf shoreline and with billions more due in compensation, after all
those ads that you’ve seen on TV telling you that everything along the
coast is better than ever….BP is continuing to foul the natural splendor
of the Gulf with its dirty crude oil.

Why is this happening?
The Coast Guard release is merely speculating when it says this “could
be residual oil associated with wreckage and/or debris left on the
seabed from the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010.” That is the most
benign scenario. The NOLA.com website also offers a new report on the
leak this morning that looks at the possible causes in greater detail,
including speculation that oil that was dispersed by toxic chemicals in
2010 is reappearing on the surface.

But the more troubling and
arguably more likely possibility — which we’ve been reporting on this
blog dating back to August 2011 – is that efforts to cap the BP well in
2010 could have created cracks, or fissures, in the floor of the Gulf.
That raises the specter of an ongoing spill that is more serious in
nature, and more difficult to contain and clean-up. The initial
response from BP and from the feds in 2011 was to try to first ognore
and then deny our reporting — until our colleague Bonny Schumaker flew
over the site and confirmed the leak. This time, the feds did not seem
in a hurry to confirm our publicize the BP connection. There needs to be
a serious and thorough investigation into how much oil is still
leaking, and why.

We
filmed this massive oil sheen on 10/10/2012 while fishing 68 miles
south west off the cost of mobile. The cost guard confirms it was oil
from Deep-water horizon. The sheen went on for miles and appeared very
thick in some areas.

Mark
Hafle, BP’s senior drilling engineer; Brian Morel, a drilling engineer;
and Robert Kaluza, the well-site leader, were the London-based
company’s direct chain of command over the well that blew out off the
Louisiana coast in April 2010. All three have invoked their
constitutional right not to testify on the grounds that it might
incriminate them.

Federal prosecutors today asked a federal
judge in New Orleans to rule that BP can be penalized at trial for the
workers’ silence, citing the three employees’ refusal to answer specific
questions about why they allegedly ignored warning signs and continued
to drill and complete the well in violation of industry safety standards
and government regulations.

( BP workers are smart. Investigative journalists - several - have suffered mysterious disappearance or death. Would you trust the corrupt society to do the right thing ? I like that 'allegedly' business. Word is things were sideways for a good week before pressure explosion blew things to bits. This on a job running 6 miles down involving insane potential pressure differentials : roughly a column of seawater equaling the 5 miles down into seabed and into the mantle right through a salt dome even without hitting high pressure pockets or methane release...which was present in large quantities. )

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Richard
Bartholomew, a longtime friend of Dispatches and a guy I respect a lot,
has his blog taken down by his blog hosting service because of an
absolutely ridiculous DMCA claim from Charlie Flowers, a British
activist he had criticized. He tells the story at an alternative site:
Yesterday, my...

You
are made up of billions and billions of "programmed" beliefs about what
is real and what’s not real, what you should or shouldn’t be or wear or
say or do. You have downloaded beliefs about how attractive you are,
about your body, your intelligence, about God, sin, life after death,
morality and class.

You have been inundated with disaster
scenarios about the future of humanity - a global depression, an
apocalypse, Armageddon, end times, depopulation, nuclear war, an
Antichrist ruler and other dis-empowering, fear mongering, toxic
propaganda.

Very few people understand the programming of fear,
and why it distorts our perceptions. While fear is a program used for
our survival, fear also creates irrational beliefs that cause larger
systems of fear like politics, religion and the media.

The collective thought waves of the 7 billion people on Planet Earth
also create an atmosphere and it affects everyone either consciously or
unconsciously. Like the Borg in Star Trek, you can tune into this
“collective consciousness” and broadcast ideas to others who will
receive and act on them. You are a drop in the ocean of thought and the
ocean of thought is in every drop.

Any thought you have, when
combined with emotion, vibrates out from you to the universe. Like a
boomerang, it returns whatever you focus on. All you have to do is allow
yourself to expect what you want. Sounds easy, right?

The hard
part is becoming 'doubt-free'. You must expect what you want without
doubt, act like you already have it and be grateful for it. Like drops
in the ocean, each and every person is individually responsible for
their contribution to mass consciousness.

❝Our world is a
reflection of our subconscious beliefs. Our subconscious mind can
process 40 million neural impulses a second while our conscious mind can
only process 40 neural impulses per second. We all know that if we
focus on something long enough we can do it without thinking, it becomes
part of our subconscious routine. Lets make compassion and
understanding a part of our subconscious routine by consciously focusing
on these higher aspects of the self in our everyday lives.❞ -Vito
Santana

How
can you be arrested for “trespassing” on your own land? Well, anything
can happen when a multinational corporation comes in and expropriates
your farm for their profit.

One
of the people who was tortured and is now being persecuted by local
authorities working with TransCanada and China to aid the invasion of
Texas. I hope they can raise the funds to get her out. Brave girl.

Shannon
is still in jail after being held 48 hours when she was re-arrested on
trumped up felony charges. These charges are an insult to injury.

A little over...

Joining
the ranks Wednesday were two reporters covering the protests for The
New York Times. Reporter Dan Frosch and an unnamed photographer
accompanying him were covering a protest on private land yesterday when
they were handcuffed and detained by a security guard for TransCanada
(the Canadian company behind the pipeline) and local police.

The reporters were on the private land at the invitation of the
landowner, but were detained for trespassing, according to a
spokesperson for the newspaper. After identifying themselves as members
of the media, they were released, but told they had to leave the
property immediately or they’d be arrested for trespassing.

Disney this week announced sweeping changes to its paper-sourcing
policy that will exclude fiber produced via the destruction of tropical
rainforests.

Information
and things you can do. I find the fact that this received such strong
bipartisan support horrifying. While they keep us distracted with
threats to women and social security, they do such evil with the other
hand......

Simply
removing the stressful situation or circumstances, leaving them behind,
or just doing something to correct the condition allows one to return
to a more relaxed sense of being. Learn more for your good health.

Information
and things you can do. I find the fact that this received such strong
bipartisan support horrifying. While they keep us distracted with
threats to women and social security, they do such evil with the other
hand......

Sit
back and take a moment to enjoy this beautifully put together
video...Shot over seven weeks earlier this year by New England-based
production company GOTM Films, the video was created from over 80,000
photos taken in and around the canyon.

Get
ready and get your community mobilized for the November Vigil at the
gates of Fort Benning, Georgia (November 16-18, 2012)! The weekend will
include a rally with thousands at the gates, a major conference with
speakers and workshop presenters from across the Americas, concerts,
film screenings, caucuses, and much more.

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